Martha's Devil's Food Cake
It is an excellent choice for February parties or for any occasion where a deluxe cake is desired.
Yield
1 cakePrep
30 minCook
30 minReady
60 minIngredients
| Amount | Measure | Ingredient | Features |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | ounces |
unsweetened chocolate
|
|
| 1 | cup |
sugar
|
|
| ½ | cup |
buttermilk
or sour milk |
|
| ½ | cup |
cake flour
sifted |
|
| 1 ½ | teaspoons |
baking powder
|
|
| ¾ | teaspoon |
baking soda
|
|
| ½ | teaspoon |
salt
|
|
| ½ | cup |
butter
or shortening |
|
| ¾ | cup |
sugar
|
|
| 3 | large |
eggs
well beaten |
|
| 1 | cup |
buttermilk
or sour milk |
|
| 1 | teaspoon |
vanilla extract
|
|
Ingredients
| Amount | Measure | Ingredient | Features |
|---|---|---|---|
| 115.6 | ml/g |
unsweetened chocolate
|
|
| 237 | ml |
sugar
|
|
| 118 | ml |
buttermilk
or sour milk |
|
| 118 | ml |
cake flour
sifted |
|
| 7.5 | ml |
baking powder
|
|
| 3.8 | ml |
baking soda
|
|
| 2.5 | ml |
salt
|
|
| 118 | ml |
butter
or shortening |
|
| 177 | ml |
sugar
|
|
| 3 | large |
eggs
well beaten |
|
| 237 | ml |
buttermilk
or sour milk |
|
| 5 | ml |
vanilla extract
|
|
Directions
Melt chocolate over boiling water; add 1 cup sugar and ½ cup butterrmilk and stir over boiling water until sugar is dissolved.
Cool. Sift flour once, measure.
Add baking powder, soda, and salt and sift together three times.
Cream butter thoroughly; add ¾ cup sugar gradually; and cream together until light and fluffy.
Add eggs and beat well. Add about ¼ of flour mixture, mix thoroughly; add chocolate mixture and blend.
Add remaining flour, altenately with buttermilk, a small Amount at a time; beat very thoroughly after each addition.
Add vanilla.
Bake in greased 15x9x2- inch pan, in a moderate oven ( 35O degrees F. ) 30 minutes, or until cake is done. When cold, trim edges, cut in half crosswise, and put together as a two-layer cake, matching edges carefully.
Spread tops and sides with Martha's Fudge Frosting (See recipe).
Or add chopped nut meats to part of frosting and use as filling.
